Web-printing machine.



No. 639,i68.

(No Model.)

P. m. GELAT-T.

WEB PRINTING MACHINE. (Application-fil d Apr. 5, 159B.)

Patented Dec. 12, I899.

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WEB PRINTING MACHINE.

(Apylication filed Apr. 6, 1898.]

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PI-IILO M. GELATT, OF LOUISVILLE, KENTUCKY, ASSIGNOR TO LEo MILLER CHAPMAN AND JAMES MADISON GELATT, OF SAME PLACE.

EB- PRINTING MACHIZNE.

SPECIFICATION-forming part of Letters Patent No. 639,168, dated December 12, 1899'.

Application filed April 5, 1898. Serial No. 676,584. (No model.) l

T aZZ whom it vitay concern.-

Be it known that I, PHILoM. GELATT, a citizen of the United States, residing at Louisville, in the county of Jefferson and State of Kentucky, have invented new and useful Im-. provements in Web-Printing Machines, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to web-printing machines, and-has for its object to utilizeasuitable printing-machine, such as theweb-perfecting double Hoe press, in suchmanner as to print a paper or part of a paper in colors, using at one time only one roll of paper and involving the employment of no additional mechanism other than three supplemental rollers, that will not in any way obstruct the ordinary use of the machine for simple webperfecting printing when so desired.

In practicing my invention I arrange three supplemental rollers in such manner that after a full-width web has been perfected by one printing mechanism, the web longitudinally slitted, and one resulting half-width web delivered to the creaser the other halfwidth web will be conducted by said supplemental rollers to a second printing mechanism arranged for supplying colored illustrations or any colored decorative or pictorial devices either in spaces left for that purpose or superposed on the already-perfected Web, after which the said color-printed half-width web will be conducted to the creaser and be associated with the other half-width web to go therewith to a folding mechanism.

In the annexed drawings, illustrating my invention, Figure 1 is a diagrammatic View of a portion'of a double-supplement Hoe webperfecting press with my supplemental rollers applied thereto. Fig. 2 is another diagrammatic View of the same at right angles to the preceding figure.

The reference-numeral 1 in Fig. 1 designates a roll of paper from which a full-width web 2 is taken to a guide-roller 3 and thence to the two sets of type and impression cylinders 4 5 and 6 7 of a full-width web-perfecting mechanism in which the type-cylinders 4 and 6 are so arranged as to print the two sides of the full-width web. From the typecylinder (5 the full-width web is carried to a anism comprising a roller 9 and cutter 10,

Fig. 1, by which the web 2 is slit longitudinally. This longitudinally-slit web passes to a guide-roller 11, Figs. 1 and 2, and thence 5 5 a half-width web, as 2, is carried to a roller 12, Fig. 1 and from this to an angle bar or roller 13, that is sb placed in oblique or diagonal position as to pass the half-width web 2; be-

tween rollers 14 and 15, Fig.2, and onto a creaser 16, that deliverssaid half-width web to folding mechanism. (Not shown.) From the roller 11 another half-width web, as 2*, passes to an angle bar or roller 17, Figs. 1 and 2, which is arranged in oblique or diagonal position in such manner as to change the direction of that half-weband conduct it y to a roller 18, Fig. 2, around whichit is passed to a roller 19, Figs. 1 and 2, thence to an adjustable register-controlling roller 20, thence to a guide-roller 21, and preferably over a guide-roller 22, Fig. 2, to the type and impression cylinders 23 24 and 25 26 of a printing mechanism that I propose to utilize for printing in colors any desired borders, column-lines, illustrations, or additional matter, the type-cylinders 23 and 25 being so arranged as to print on opposite sides of the already-printed half-width web 2 that is to constitute the outside sheets of the newspaper or other printed product.

After passing the second printing mechanism the half-width web 2 is carried over guide-rollers 27" and 28, Fig. 2, and between the rollers 14 and 15 to the creaser 16, where 8 5 it passes onto and is associated with the halfwidth web 2*, going therewith to the folding mechanism.

The drawings illustrate only such portions of a double-supplement Hoe press as are necessary to an understanding of my invention, which comprises such an arrangement of additional web-controlling rollers 19,20, and 21 as will permit the making of, say, aneight-page paper from a single longitudinallyslitted web and allow the full width of the web to be printed on both sides by the first two sets of type and impression cylinders 4 5 and 6 7 prior to slitting the web, after which one half-width web may have additional mat- I00 means of another set or sets of cylinders, as

23, 24, 25, and 26, there may be supplied colored borders or column-lines or colored illustrations or other devices-or additional matter, and these may occupy spaces left for that purpose in the matter originally printed, or they may be superposed on the previouslyprinted matter of one of the half-width webs and will preferably constitute the outside sheets of the completed paper or other printed product.

With the described arrangement of three additional .rollers 19, 20, and 21 the press will require only one roll of paper, as 1, and after the full-width web has been printed on both sides by the two sets of cylinders 4 5 and 6 7 the web will be slitted longitudinally, one printed half-web being then carried to the creaser, while the other printed half-web is carried to'the two sets of cylinders 23 24 and 25 26 for the printing of additional matter in colors on the already-printed half-web. Thus representations of flags or other emblems or devices or any pictorial matter may be printed in appropriate colors either upon the previously-printed text or in suitable spaces provided for that purpose on one of the halfwidth webs, as 2", and the two half-width webs 2 and 2 may then be associated, creased, and folded in such manner that the parts printed in colors may be on the outside of the finished article. The color printing may be arranged for the illustration or setting 0d of advertisements, or it may include any pictorial matter suitable for newspaper use, and on national holidays and like occasions it may comprise properly-colored representations of flags or patriotic emblems or the devices and emblems of patriotic societies and other organizations.

For the purpose of adjusting the register of the half-width web 2 the register-controlling roller 20 has its shaft journaled in bearings 29, that are adjustably mounted in slotted brackets 30, secured to the frame of the machine at a suitable point.

It will be understood that the type-cylinders 4 6 and 23 25 are to be provided with inking mechanisms of any suitable or well known character, but which it is not deemed necessary to illustrate. Obviously either printing mechanism may be employed for color-printing; but it will be preferable to use the first printing mechanism for imprinting reading matter on both sides of the full-width web, which is afterward slitted longitudinally, one half-width web being then carried by way of-rollers 17 and 1S-to the additional or supplemental rollers 19, 20, and 21 provided by my invention, and thence to the second printing mechanism, which will supply the required decorative coloring or colored illustrations.

It will be observed that the supplemental rollers 19, 20, and 21 are so located that they will not interfere with nor in any way obstruct the ordinary use of a double-supplement Hoe press in the usual employment of its two separate printing and web-perfecting mechanisms for producinga printed and folded paper from two separate webs supplied from distinct rolls of paper, one for each printing mechanism, if desired. 7

It is further possible by using a half-width roll on the real-printing mechanism of a Hoe double-supplement press, which of course does away with the necessity for slitting the web, to add the color-printing to all of the pages of four-page or eight-page papers, the only difference in the process being a reduction of the speed at which the completed papers are turned out.

What I claim as my invention is- 1. In a double-supplement web-perfecting press, the combination with the two web-perfecting mechanisms, the first one being arranged for perfecting a full-width web and the second for printing in colors on both sides of one half-width Web separated from the previously-perfected full-width web,of the described supplementalroller mechanism for conducting a separated one-half-width web from the first perfecting mechanism to the second, substantially as specified. I

2. In a double-supplement web-perfecting press, the combination with the two web-perfecting inechanisms,and an intermediate slitting mechauism, the first perfecting mechanism being arranged for perfectinga full-width web and the second for printing in colors on both sides of one half-width web separated from the previously-perfected full-width web, of the described supplemental rollers for conducting a previously-printed half-width web from the first perfecting mechanism and slitting mechanism to the second perfecting mechanism, and means for adjusting one of said supplemental rollers, substantially as specified.

3. In a double-supplement web-perfecting press, the combination of the two web-perfecting mechanisms, an intermediate slitting mechanism, the first perfecting mechanism being arranged for perfecting a full-width web and the second for printing in colors on both sides of one half-width Web separated by said slitting mechanism from the previously-perfected full-width web, a creaser 16, rollers 11,12 and 13 for conducting one half of a perfected and slitted full-width web to the creaser, the rollers 17 and 18 for supporting the other half of the perfected and slitted web, the supplemental rollers 19, 20 and 21 for conducting the second half-width web from the roller 18 t0 the second perfecting In testimony whereof I have hereunto set mechanism, means for adjusting one of said my hand in presence of two subscribing Witsupplemental rollers to control the register, nesses.

and roller mechanism for carrying the said PI-IILO M. GELATT. 5 second half-Width Web from the second per- Witnesses:

fecting mechanism to the creaser, substan- J. M. GELATT, tially as described. HENRY A. TREKING. 

